Alexander von Zemlinsky

Alexander von Zemlinsky or Alexander Zemlinsky, (October 14, 1871 - March 15, 1942) was an Austrian composer of classical music, a conductor and a teacher.

List of selected Works

Orchestral Works

• Symphony (No. 1) for orchestra (1891, fragment)
• Symphony No.1 (No. 2) for orchestra (1892/1892)
• Suite for Orchestra (c.1895)
• Symphonie No.2 (No. 3) for orchestra (1897)
• Drei Ballettstücke. Suite from Der Triumph der Zeit for orchestra (1902)
• Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid) for orchestra (1902/03, premiered in Vienna in 1905)
• Lyric Symphony for soprano, baritone and orchestra op.18 (after poems by Rabindranath Tagore) (1922/23)
• Sinfonietta for orchestra op. 23 (1934, first perfomance, Prague 1935)

Operas

• Sarema, Opera (libretto by the composer, Adolf von Zemlinszky and Arnold Schönberg, 1893?95, Premiered in Munich 1897)
• Es war einmal ... (Once upon a time ...), Opera (libretto by Maximilian Singer nach Holger Drachmann, 1897?99, Premiered in Vienna 1900)
• Der Traumgörge, Opera (libretto by Leo Feld, 1904?06)
• Kleider machen Leute (The Clothes Make the Man), Opera (libretto by Leo Feld, after Gottfried Keller) (Three versions, 1908-1909/1910/1922)
• Eine florentinische Tragödie (A Florentine Tragedy), opera in one act op. 16 (libretto by Oscar Wilde/ Max Meyerfeld, 1915/16)
• Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), opera in one act op.17 (libretto by Georg C. Klaren based on Oscar Wilde's Der Geburtstag der Infantin, 1919?21, premiered in Cologne in 1922)
• Der Kreidekreis, opera in three acts op. 21 (libretto by the composer after Klabund, 1930?32, premiered in Zurich in 1933)
• Der König Kandaules, opera in three acts op. 22 (libretto by the composers after André Gide in the German translation by Franz Blei, 1935/36, complete orchestration by Antony Beaumont 1992?96)

Other Works for the stage

• Ein Lichtstrahl, Mimodram for piano (text by Oskar Geller, 1901, rev. 1902)
• Ein Tanzpoem. A Dance Poem in one act for orchestra (Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1901?04, final version of the ballet Der Triumph der Zeit (1901))
• Incidental music for Shakespeare's Cymbeline for tenor, reciter and orchestra (1913?15)

Choral Works

• Frühlingsbegräbnis (Paul Heyse) for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra (1896/97, rev. c. 1903)
• Psalm 83 for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1900)
• Psalm 23 for chorus and orchestra op. 14 (1910, first perfomance,Vienna 1910)
• Psalm 13 for chorus and orchestra op. 24 (1935)

Voice(s) and orchestra

• Maiblumen blühten überall (Richard Dehmel) for soprano and string sextet (c. 1902/03)
• Sechs Gesänge after poems by Maurice Maeterlinck op. 13 (1913, orchestrated 1913/21))
• Symphonische Gesänge for baritone or alto and orchestra op. 20. (texts from Afrika singt. Eine Auslese neuer afro-amerikanischer Lyrik, 1929)

Songs for voice and piano

• Walzer-Gesänge nach toskanischen Liedern von Ferdinand Gregorovius op. 6 (1898)
• Irmelin Rose und andere Gesänge op. 7 (1898/99)
• Turmwächterlied und andere Gesänge op. 8 (1898/99)
• Ehetanzlied und andere Gesänge op. 10 (1899?1901)
• Sechs Gesänge nach Gedichten von Maurice Maeterlinck op. 13 (1913)
• Sechs Lieder op. 22 (1934; first perfomance, Prague in 1934)
• Zwölf Lieder op. 27 (1937)
• Three Songs (Irma Stein-Firner) (1939)

Chamber Music

• String Quartet No. 1 op. 4 (1896)
• String Quartet No. 2 op. 15 (1913?15, first perfomance, Vienna 1918)
• String Quartet No. 3 op. 19 (1924)
• Two Movements for string quintet (1927)
• String Quartet No. 4 (Suite) op. 25 (1936)
• Quartet (Two Fragments) for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (1938/39)
• Humoreske (Rondo), for wind quintet (1939)

Works for piano

• Albumblatt (Erinnerung aus Wien) (1895)
• Fantasien über Gedichte von Richard Dehmel op. 9 (1898)
• Menuett (from Das gläserne Herz) (1901)